And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
HIPPOCRATESPrayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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